🖥️ AsRock Rack X470D4U Micro ATX Server Motherboard: AM4 Ryzen & Ryzen 7nm PGA1331 AMD X470 Review

This server board is very well designed and has all the features I need: onboard video, 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports, IPMI remote management (industry standard protocol), up to 128GB of ECC memory and enough PCIe 3.0 lanes for two dedicated RAID controllers or 1 dedicated RAID controller + 1 GPU or 2 x GPUs and an onboard SATA RAID controller with M.2 SSD for storage. The use case above still leaves me with one available open - the PCIe x4 expansion slot has run out, which isn't bad at all…

In the foreword I want to say that I run Unraid on this motherboard with several Windows virtual machines (XP and Win10) and several Docker containers 24/7 and this motherboard has been very stable for me for about 6 years Year old. Months. However, this review is presented solely through the lens of an unraid server deployment and may not be relevant to everyone. PROS Obviously, the presence of server management features in this form factor pretty much makes you look at this motherboard or…

- Comes with BIOS new enough to support 3rd Gen Ryzen processors out of the box. - Has an amazingly useful IPMI (out of band management) system that has saved my ass a few times by allowing me to manage a server remotely. - Supports I/O/MMU, ACS, virtualization and all other useful enterprise-level features that greatly simplify the work of virtual machines. I'm currently running Hyper-V on Windows Server 2019 with 6 VMs. One of these VMs has GPU passthrough with DDA to my Plex server for…

The only downside I have for the board is the BMC. Unfortunately, this is also the main reason for buying the board. The board is a great virtualization server, but what do we do without a good sorting feature in a headless system? There are instructions on how to download a BMC reset app, place it on Rufus or another bootable Dos USB drive, and reset the BMC to solve the problem (at least temporarily). I haven't had time to disassemble the system and either move the monitor and keyboard into…

I would give this one star but AsRock quickly got support. It was intended to update an outdated system. Problems: 1. My main problem with the motherboard is that it doesn't always see or boot multiple flash drives for unraid. The first stick was my existing unraid install, the other was a fresh install. The only way to boot it into Unraid is with a hard reset (power cycle). Faulty or bad BIOS firmware, I returned this board.2. This motherboard is not subject to the restricted AMD socket range…